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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois/Counter%20Mode
In cryptography, Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) is a mode of operation for symmetric-key cryptographic block ciphers which is widely adopted for its performance. GCM throughput rates for state-of-the-art, high-speed communication channels can be achieved with inexpensive hardware resources. The GCM algorithm provides both...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permotipulidae
Permotipulidae is an extinct family of insects within the order Protodiptera. Permotipulidae appeared in the Permian. Two genera are Permotipula and Permila which are close relatives to flies. References The Paleobiology Database Fossil Diptera Catalog David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel. Evolution of the insects V.A ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%20%28disambiguation%29
Max Planck (1858–1947) was a German physicist considered to be the founder of quantum theory. Planck may also refer to: Science Planck (crater), on the Moon Planck (spacecraft), a space observatory Planck units, in particle physics and physical cosmology People with the surname Amalia Planck (1834–1908), Swedish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofiyivka%20Park
Sofiyivsky Park (; ) is an arboretum (type of botanical garden) and a scientific-researching institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU Department of Biology). The park is located in the northern part of the City of Uman, Cherkasy Oblast (Central Ukraine), near the Kamianka River. Some areas of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archain
Archain is a human protein that is encoded by gene which is located on chromosome 11. Also known as ARCN1, it plays a role in eukaryotic cell biology. It is part of the COPI coatomer complex. References External links Peripheral membrane proteins Genes on human chromosome 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onium%20ion
In chemistry, an onium ion is a cation formally obtained by the protonation of mononuclear parent hydride of a pnictogen (group 15 of the periodic table), chalcogen (group 16), or halogen (group 17). The oldest-known onium ion, and the namesake for the class, is ammonium, , the protonated derivative of ammonia, . The ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directionality%20%28molecular%20biology%29
Directionality, in molecular biology and biochemistry, is the end-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid. In a single strand of DNA or RNA, the chemical convention of naming carbon atoms in the nucleotide pentose-sugar-ring means that there will be a 5′ end (usually pronounced "five-prime end"),...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%20Wara%27%20al-Tabi%27a
Ma Wara' al-Tabi'a (), which can be translated also as Metaphysics, Supernatural, or Paranormal is the title of a series of horror/thriller novels written by Ahmed Khaled Towfik. As of 2014, 81 novels were published. Set in the 1960s, it sees hematologist Dr. Refaat Ismail unwillingly become a go-to guy for paranormal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity%20of%20a%20function
In mathematics, the elasticity or point elasticity of a positive differentiable function f of a positive variable (positive input, positive output) at point a is defined as or equivalently It is thus the ratio of the relative (percentage) change in the function's output with respect to the relative change in its inp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMP%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29
Symbolic Manipulation Program, usually called SMP, was a computer algebra system designed by Chris A. Cole and Stephen Wolfram at Caltech circa 1979. It was initially developed in the Caltech physics department with contributions from Geoffrey C. Fox, Jeffrey M. Greif, Eric D. Mjolsness, Larry J. Romans, Timothy Shaw, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Carlisle
Sir John Michael Carlisle (born 16 December 1929) is a British marine engineer. Early life and education Carlisle was born in Sheffield, the son of John Hugh Carlisle and Lilian Amy Smith. He was educated at King Edward VII School (photo), and then the University of Sheffield where he studied mechanical engineering. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrack
Wrack may refer to: wrack (mathematics), a concept in knot theory wrack (seaweed), several species of seaweed Wrack, a novel by James Bradley (Australian writer) Charlie Wrack (1899–1979), English footballer Darren Wrack (born 1976), English footballer Matt Wrack (born 1962), British firefighter and trade unioni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonclassical%20light
Nonclassical light is light that cannot be described using classical electromagnetism; its characteristics are described by the quantized electromagnetic field and quantum mechanics. The most common described forms of nonclassical light are the following: Photon statistics of Nonclassical Light is Sub-Poissonian in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvalence
Polyvalence or polyvalent may refer to: Polyvalency (chemistry), chemical species, generally atoms or molecules, which exhibit more than one chemical valence Polyvalence (music), the musical use of more than one harmonic function of a tonality simultaneously Polyvalent antibody, a group of antibodies that have affinit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weil%27s%20criterion
In mathematics, Weil's criterion is a criterion of André Weil for the Generalized Riemann hypothesis to be true. It takes the form of an equivalent statement, to the effect that a certain generalized function is positive definite. Weil's idea was formulated first in a 1952 paper. It is based on the explicit formulae o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glauber%E2%80%93Sudarshan%20P%20representation
The Sudarshan-Glauber P representation is a suggested way of writing down the phase space distribution of a quantum system in the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. The P representation is the quasiprobability distribution in which observables are expressed in normal order. In quantum optics, this represen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NNO
NNO may stand for: Nuveen North Carolina Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund 2 (stock symbol: NNO) Natural number object, in category theory, a subfield of mathematics National Night Out, a crime prevention activity in the United States Nynorsk, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 language codes Nitrous oxide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Mackworth
Alan Mackworth is a professor emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He is known as "The Founding Father" of RoboCup. He is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BICOM
BICOM may refer to: Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre Brunel Institute of Computational Mathematics Bioresonance therapy, pseudoscientific medical practice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azriel%20Rosenfeld
Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 – February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Stearns%20%28World%20Vision%29
Richard Stearns was the president of World Vision United States, an international Christian relief charity based in Federal Way, Washington, from 1998 to 2018. Biography Stearns holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, where he joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and studied neurobiology, and an MBA from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20pressure
In fluid dynamics, dynamic pressure (denoted by or and sometimes called velocity pressure) is the quantity defined by: where (in SI units): is the dynamic pressure in pascals (i.e., kg/(m*s2), (Greek letter rho) is the fluid mass density (e.g. in kg/m3), and is the flow speed in m/s. It can be thought of as the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poset%20topology
In mathematics, the poset topology associated to a poset (S, ≤) is the Alexandrov topology (open sets are upper sets) on the poset of finite chains of (S, ≤), ordered by inclusion. Let V be a set of vertices. An abstract simplicial complex Δ is a set of finite sets of vertices, known as faces , such that Given a sim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20security%20parameter
In cryptography, a critical security parameter (CSP) is information that is either user or system defined and is used to operate a cryptography module in processing encryption functions including cryptographic keys and authentication data, such as passwords, the disclosure or modification of which can compromise the se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20College%20of%20Medical%20Genetics%20and%20Genomics
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is an organization composed of biochemical, clinical, cytogenetic, medical and molecular geneticists, genetic counselors and other health care professionals committed to the practice of medical genetics. History The ACMG, incorporated in 1991, stated mission...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Holt%20%28author%29
Michael Holt (born 1929) is a UK author of puzzle and quiz books for children, including several Doctor Who related quiz books and Crisis In Space in the Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who series. He was also the co-author of Puffin Books' Big Book of Puzzles series. He taught mathematics and geometry in London sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bernard%20%28bishop%29
John Henry Bernard, PC (27 July 1860 – 29 August 1927), was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Biography Bernard was born in Raniganj, India. He was a scholar in Trinity College Dublin in 1879, graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1880. He was elected a Fellow there in 1884, and was later a member of the council of the uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/4
3/4 or ¾ may refer to: The fraction (mathematics) three quarters () equal to 0.75 Arts and media 3/4 (film), a 2017 Bulgarian film time, a form of triple metre in music 3/4 profile, in portraits 3/4 perspective, in video games Other uses ″ videocassette, better known as the U-matic format March 4 (month-day ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivailo%20Jordanov
Ivailo Jordanov () is a business executive and the co-founder of Styloko and 23snaps. Background Jordanov graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and applied math from University of the Witwatersrand. He then began his career working for Espotting as Head of Product Development before founding ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Dunyach
Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer. Overview Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France. Dunyach has been writing science fiction since the beginning of the 1980s and has already p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Jaffrey%20Wheatley
Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (5 March 1921 – 12 May 1997) was an English chemist, who published over 100 papers and 5 books on physical chemistry, crystallography and structural chemistry. Biography Wheatley was born on 5 March 1921 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He was educated at King Edward VII School (photo) in Sheffield, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Blame
Steve Blame is a British television presenter and screenwriter. He was the news editor and presenter between 1987 and 1994 for the television channel MTV. Education Blame received a Combined Honours Degree: Mathematics and Physics from Exeter University in 1980, and a master's degree in screen writing from the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20Norton%20Wise
Matthew Norton Wise (born 1940) is an American historian of science who serves as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the co-director of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. He has famously attacked Gross and Levitt's book in which they perceive the obstruction of science b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Nayernia
Karim Nayernia () is an Iranian biomedical scientist and a world expert on stem cell biology and Personalized medicine. He carried out pioneering work that has the potential to lead to future therapies for a range of medical conditions such as heart disease, Parkinson's disease and male infertility. His team was the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20%28disambiguation%29
Harmonic usually refers to the frequency components of a time-varying signal, such as a musical note. Mathematics, science and engineering Harmonic (mathematics), a number of concepts in mathematics Harmonic analysis, representing signals by superposition of basic waves Harmonic oscillator, a concept in classical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20recognition%20%28disambiguation%29
Pattern recognition is a field in machine learning. Pattern recognition may also refer to: Pattern recognition (psychology), identification of faces, objects, words, melodies, etc. Pattern Recognition (novel), a 2003 novel by William Gibson Pattern Recognition, an album by Sea Scouts "Pattern Recognition", a song by S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20operators%20and%20symbols%20in%20Unicode
The Unicode Standard encodes almost all standard characters used in mathematics. Unicode Technical Report #25 provides comprehensive information about the character repertoire, their properties, and guidelines for implementation. Mathematical operators and symbols are in multiple Unicode blocks. Some of these blocks a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20spectroscopy%20correlation%20table
An infrared spectroscopy correlation table (or table of infrared absorption frequencies) is a list of absorption peaks and frequencies, typically reported in wavenumber, for common types of molecular bonds and functional groups. In physical and analytical chemistry, infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy) is a techniqu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20banding
G-banding, G banding or Giemsa banding is a technique used in cytogenetics to produce a visible karyotype by staining condensed chromosomes. It is the most common chromosome banding method. It is useful for identifying genetic diseases (mainly chromosomal abnormalities) through the photographic representation of the en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%20symbol
In mathematics, the Hilbert symbol or norm-residue symbol is a function (–, –) from K× × K× to the group of nth roots of unity in a local field K such as the fields of reals or p-adic numbers. It is related to reciprocity laws, and can be defined in terms of the Artin symbol of local class field theory. The Hilbert sym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield%20Scott%20Chaplin
Winfield Scott Chaplin (1847 – March 12, 1918) was the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1891 until 1907. Early life He was born in Maine in 1847 and graduated from West Point in 1870 as a second lieutenant of artillery. After resigning in 1872, he held a number of academic positions in civil and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fivos%20Constantinou
Fivos Constantinou (; born May 27, 1981) is a Cyprus Native and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from MIT. Fivos is well known for his accomplishments as a distance runner on the track as well as in Cross Country. He has competed for the MIT Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track and Fie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesel
Riesel may refer to: People Hans Riesel (1929–2014), Swedish mathematician who discovered a Mersenne prime Victor Riesel (1913–1995), American labor union journalist In Mathematics Riesel number, an odd natural number k for which the integers of the form k·2n−1 are all composite Riesel Sieve, a project to prove t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%20Game%20Dynamics
Newton Game Dynamics is an open-source physics engine for realistically simulating rigid bodies in games and other real-time applications. Its solver is deterministic and not based on traditional LCP or iterative methods. Newton Game Dynamics is actively developed by Julio Jerez. Currently a new version which will ta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20and%20molecular%20astrophysics
Atomic astrophysics is concerned with performing atomic physics calculations that will be useful to astronomers and using atomic data to interpret astronomical observations. Atomic physics plays a key role in astrophysics as astronomers' only information about a particular object comes through the light that it emits, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Murchie
Guy Murchie (Jr.) (25 January 1907 – 8 July 1997) was an American writer about science and philosophy: aviation, astronomy, biology, and the meaning of life. He was, successively, a world traveler; a war correspondent; a photographer, staff artist, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; a pilot and flight instructor; a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein%20al-Musawi
Husayn Al-Musawi (also Hussein Musawi) is a Lebanese who founded the now-dissolved pro-Iranian Islamist militia Islamic Amal in 1982. He was a Shia from Baalbek. Musawi was a "chemistry teacher turned militia commander" who became the deputy head and official spokesman of the Amal movement/party/militia, Lebanon's lar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Szatmari
Peter Szatmari (born 1950) is a Canadian researcher of autism and Asperger syndrome. Szatmari is a Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, at McMaster University. He is also the Director of the research training program in the department, and a member of the Offord C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Dunkels
Adam Dunkels (born 1978) is a Swedish computer scientist, computer programmer, entrepreneur, and founder of Thingsquare, an Internet of things (IoT) product development business. His father was professor of mathematics Andrejs Dunkels. His mother was professor Kerstin Vännman. His work is mainly focused on computer ne...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20of%20a%20polynomial
In mathematics, the degree of a polynomial is the highest of the degrees of the polynomial's monomials (individual terms) with non-zero coefficients. The degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of the variables that appear in it, and thus is a non-negative integer. For a univariate polynomial, the degree of the po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%20of%20relations
In mathematics, the category Rel has the class of sets as objects and binary relations as morphisms. A morphism (or arrow) R : A → B in this category is a relation between the sets A and B, so . The composition of two relations R: A → B and S: B → C is given by (a, c) ∈ S o R ⇔ for some b ∈ B, (a, b) ∈ R and (b, c) ∈...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20A.%20Menon
Goplala Achutha "G. A" Menon (1931–2003) was a US-based entrepreneur of Kerala origin. Early life and education Born in North Paravur in Kerala, India, Menon studied at Government Higher Secondary School (North Paravur). He majored in mathematics at Madras University and went to Harvard Business School. Career Meno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20locality
Type locality may refer to: Type locality (biology) Type locality (geology) See also Local (disambiguation) Locality (disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebigs%20Annalen
Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (often cited as just Liebigs Annalen) was one of the oldest and historically most important journals in the field of organic chemistry worldwide. It was established in 1832 and edited by Justus von Liebig with Friedrich Wöhler and others until Liebig's death in 1873. In 1997, the jou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum%20total%20protein
Serum total protein, also known as total protein, is a clinical chemistry parameter representing the concentration of protein in serum. Serum contains many proteins including serum albumin, a variety of globulins, and many others. While it is possible to analyze these proteins individually, total protein is a relativel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectives%20in%20Biology%20and%20Medicine
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1957. It publishes essays that explore biology and medicine in relation to their place in society. Authors write informally, presenting their "perspectives" as the title suggests. Topics covered are sometimes explicitly scientific, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20M.%20Bortz%20III
Walter Michael Bortz III is a former educator and higher education administrator. He served as the president of Hampden–Sydney College, located in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, from July 2000 until June 30, 2009. Biography Education and degrees Bortz received his bachelor's degree in biology at Bethany College in Bethany...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Milner
Isaac Milner (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and helped him through many trials and was a great supporter of the abolitionis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%20King
Joshua King (16 January 1798 – 1 September 1857) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1839 to 1849. He was also the President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1832 until his death and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University from 1833–4. Education Educated at Hawkshead Gramma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine%20Cup
Imagine Cup is an annual competition sponsored and hosted by Microsoft Corp. which brings together student developers worldwide to help resolve some of the world's toughest challenges. It is considered as "Olympics of Technology" by computer science and engineering and is considered one of the top competitions and awar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement%20John%20Tranter
Clement John Tranter, (16 August 1909 – 27 October 1991) was a British mathematics professor, researcher and the author of several key academic textbooks. Born in 1909 into a family of scientists, he served as a captain in the Second World War, before receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford and later bec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Microbiological%20Societies
The International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), founded in 1927 as the International Society of Microbiology, is one of 40 member unions and associations of the International Science Council (ISC), and was formerly under ISC's predecessor, the International Council for Science. The union's objectives are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20number
Regular numbers are numbers that evenly divide powers of 60 (or, equivalently, powers of 30). Equivalently, they are the numbers whose only prime divisors are 2, 3, and 5. As an example, 602 = 3600 = 48 × 75, so as divisors of a power of 60 both 48 and 75 are regular. These numbers arise in several areas of mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Darmstaedter
Ludwig Darmstaedter (9 August 1846 – 18 October 1927) was a German chemist and historian of science. From 1865 he studied chemistry under Robert Bunsen and Emil Erlenmeyer at the University of Heidelberg, then furthered his education in Leipzig as a student of Hermann Kolbe. Afterwards, he relocated to Berlin, where h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamui%20Fujiwara
is a Japanese character designer and manga artist. Fujiwara's father was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He excelled in mathematics and computer science when in grade school. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School. Fujiwara won an honorable mention in 1979 for his debut manga titled ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft%E2%80%93Karp%20algorithm
In computer science, the Hopcroft–Karp algorithm (sometimes more accurately called the Hopcroft–Karp–Karzanov algorithm) is an algorithm that takes a bipartite graph as input and produces a maximum-cardinality matching as output — a set of as many edges as possible with the property that no two edges share an endpoint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouton
Bouton may refer to: Biology Axon terminal, also called synaptic bouton or terminal bouton Places Bouton, Iowa, a town in the United States Bouton, an older English spelling, no longer in use, for Buton, an island in Indonesia People Alphonse Bouton (1908-?), French rower Anaïs Bouton (1970-), French television...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecorvo%E2%80%93Maki%E2%80%93Nakagawa%E2%80%93Sakata%20matrix
In particle physics, the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix (PMNS matrix), Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix (MNS matrix), lepton mixing matrix, or neutrino mixing matrix is a unitary mixing matrix which contains information on the mismatch of quantum states of neutrinos when they propagate freely and when they take part...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Riess
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%2048001%E2%80%9349000
48001–48100 |-id=047 | 48047 Houghten || || Christopher Houghten (born 1963), from Rutland, Vermont, who developed a non-computer-based system to allow manually operated telescopes to be GOTO telescopes || |-id=070 | 48070 Zizza || || Frank Zizza, American associate professor of mathematics at the University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph%20Hering
Rudolph Hering (February 26, 1847 – May 30, 1923) was a founder of modern environmental technology. Biography Rudolph Hering was born in Philadelphia on February 26, 1847. He came to Dresden at age 13 to attend school there and studied civil engineering at the Technische Universität Dresden as a member of the German ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Antonio%20Zago
Marco Antonio Zago (born January 11, 1946 in Birigüi, São Paulo) is a Brazilian physician and prominent medical scientist, who is active in the fields of hereditary diseases of the blood (hemoglobins, clotting, thrombosis), molecular basis of cancer and human population genetics. Aside from working directly as scientes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bren%20Hall
Bren Hall, opened in April 2002, is located on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara, located in Santa Barbara, California. It is named in honor of philanthropist Donald Bren and hosts the university's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. The building has a view of Santa Barbara Channel a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergene%20%28disambiguation%29
Supergene is a group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that are inherited together because of close genetic linkage and are functionally related in an evolutionary sense. Supergene may also refer to: Supergene (program), a computer program which allows the user to test a variety of plant genetics models Supergene ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock%20modular%20form
In mathematics, a mock modular form is the holomorphic part of a harmonic weak Maass form, and a mock theta function is essentially a mock modular form of weight . The first examples of mock theta functions were described by Srinivasa Ramanujan in his last 1920 letter to G. H. Hardy and in his lost notebook. Sander Zwe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%20signature%20algorithm
In cryptography, the Rabin signature algorithm is a method of digital signature originally proposed by Michael O. Rabin in 1978. The Rabin signature algorithm was one of the first digital signature schemes proposed. By introducing the use of hashing as an essential step in signing, it was the first design to meet wha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organofluorine%20chemistry
Organofluorine chemistry describes the chemistry of organofluorine compounds, organic compounds that contain a carbon–fluorine bond. Organofluorine compounds find diverse applications ranging from oil and water repellents to pharmaceuticals, refrigerants, and reagents in catalysis. In addition to these applications, so...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointcheval%E2%80%93Stern%20signature%20algorithm
In cryptography, the Pointcheval–Stern signature algorithm is a digital signature scheme based on the closely related ElGamal signature scheme. It changes the ElGamal scheme slightly to produce an algorithm which has been proven secure in a strong sense against adaptive chosen-message attacks, assuming the discrete log...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki%20dangerous%20bend%20symbol
The dangerous bend or caution symbol ☡ () was created by the Nicolas Bourbaki group of mathematicians and appears in the margins of mathematics books written by the group. It resembles a road sign that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead, and is used to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an es...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad%20Khansari
Haj Seyyed Ahmad Khansari (1891–1950/51), son of Seyyed Yusef Khansari, was one of the conspicuous jurisprudents. He was born in a religious family in Khansar City on August 24, 1891 (18th Moharam 1309 AH). He studied Mathematics, Primary Sciences and Seminary lectures in Khansar. To continue his studies he went to I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius%20Scheiner
Julius Scheiner (25 November 1858 – 20 December 1913) was a German astronomer, born in Cologne and educated at Bonn. He became assistant at the astrophysical observatory in Potsdam in 1887 and its observer in chief in 1898, three years after his appointment to the chair of astrophysics in the University of Berlin. Sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate%20system
In mathematics, particularly in algebra, an indeterminate system is a system of simultaneous equations (e.g., linear equations) which has more than one solution (sometimes infinitely many solutions). In the case of a linear system, the system may be said to be underspecified, in which case the presence of more than one...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyanmoy%20Deb
Kalyanmoy Deb is an Indian computer scientist. Deb is the Herman E. & Ruth J. Koenig Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at Michigan State University. Deb is also a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20notation
In mathematics and physics, vector notation is a commonly used notation for representing vectors, which may be Euclidean vectors, or more generally, members of a vector space. For representing a vector, the common typographic convention is lower case, upright boldface type, as in . The International Organization for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo%20Colombi
Arturo Colombi (born January 6, 1958) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, and former governor of Corrientes Province. Born in Mercedes, Corrientes, and educated at the National University of the Northeast with a degree in civil engineering, Colombi served as provincial Minister of Public Works in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery%20theory
In mathematics, specifically in geometric topology, surgery theory is a collection of techniques used to produce one finite-dimensional manifold from another in a 'controlled' way, introduced by . Milnor called this technique surgery, while Andrew Wallace called it spherical modification. The "surgery" on a differentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla%20software
In computer science, vanilla describes software, hardware or algorithms that have not been customized or modified from their original form. The term "Vanilla software" has become a widespread de facto industry standard, widely used by businesses and individuals. The term comes from the traditional standard flavor of i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20Room%20for%20Humans
No Room for Humans is Servotron's debut album. It contains 14 tracks about robot domination and human extinction. Their lyrics discuss various topics ranging from abolishing the three laws of robotics to criticizing one of their own (Gammatron) for acting too human. Track listing 001. "S.R.A." 002. "3 Laws (Abolished)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Bassi%20%28icebreaker%29
Laura Bassi (formerly Polar Queen and RRS Ernest Shackleton) is an icebreaking research vessel operated by the Italian National Institute for Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, (in Italian: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS). Between 1999 and 2019, she was the British Antarctic Surv...
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Catalyst is a 2002 novel by American writer Laurie Halse Anderson, published September 2002 by Viking Press. The book tells the story of Kate Malone, a preacher's daughter and high school student who is excellent in chemistry and aspires to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but faces multiple tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation%20%28disambiguation%29
Continuation is a concept in computer science. Continuation may also refer to: Concept Analytic continuation, a technique in complex analysis Numerical continuation, a method to compute approximate solutions of a system of non-linear equations Continuation War, the Finno-Soviet conflict during World War II Continuin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodosobenzene
Iodosobenzene or iodosylbenzene is an organoiodine compound with the empirical formula . This colourless solid compound is used as an oxo transfer reagent in research laboratories examining organic and coordination chemistry. Preparation and structure Iodosobenzene is prepared from iodobenzene. It is prepared by first...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%20Williams
Floyd Leroy Williams (born September 20, 1939) is a North American mathematician well known for his work in Lie theory and, most recently, mathematical physics. In addition to Lie theory, his research interests are in homological algebra and the mathematics of quantum mechanics. He received his B.S.(1962) in Mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Jefferson%20Jackson%20See
Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by plagiarism and conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna%20Nelson
Donna J. Nelson is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson specializes in organic chemistry, which she both researches and teaches. Nelson served as a science advisor to the AMC television show Breaking Bad. She was the 2016 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagliato
Gagliato (Calabrian: ) is a village and comune in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. In recognition of the unique role that the town has come to play as an international magnet for global leaders in nanotechnology, and as host of the NanoGagliato events, Gagliato has received the offic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Aczel
Amir Dan Aczel (; November 6, 1950 – November 26, 2015) was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science. Biography Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel. Aczel's father was the captain of a passenger ship that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Adami
Christoph Carl Herbert "Chris" Adami (born August 30, 1962) is a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, as well as professor of physics and astronomy, at Michigan State University. Education Adami was born in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated from the European School of Brussels I. He obtained a Diplom in ph...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGS%20%28disambiguation%29
CGS or cgs is the centimetre–gram–second system of physical units. CGS may also refer to: Organizations Canwest Global Communications Corporation (TSX symbol), a former Canadian media conglomerate CGS Aviation, an American manufacturer of ultralight aircraft Center for Genetics and Society, US Central Geological ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Casanova
Manuel F. Casanova is the SmartState Endowed Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics and a professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. He is a former Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and a Professor of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiol...